Re: [Boost-users] Need boost's help with poor design

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-29 13:08:10

AMDG

Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>     You could put the ID in the base Packet type.  That should
>     minimize the
>     chances of mismatch.
>
>
> Right now I'm already putting the ID as a static constant variable in 
> each derived type. I don't see a way to set the ID in the base Packet 
> class, since that would more than likely require CRTP or something. 
> From what I have seen the Packet base class cannot be a template. I 
> suppose you could do this if you used 3 levels of inheritance, but 
> that seems ugly.

I'm thinking of a non static member variable in the base class, which 
can be set in
the constructor.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe